Example sentences of "he had try [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already it had whipped the shallow water inside the reef into short seas , white-capped and capable of stopping the big cat in its tracks if he had tried sailing for the far point and Belpan City . |
| 2 | He had tried reading it on trains , in bed at night , and even , on one occasion , in the bath . |
| 3 | He had tried reading isolated pages — reading three pages , skipping three , and then reading four . |
| 4 | He had tried starting in the middle and working backwards . |
| 5 | He had tried starting at the end and flicking to the beginning . |
| 6 | He had tried saying it out loud . |
| 7 | This must have been a joke , as he laughed , or perhaps any mention of marriage was a joke to Gordon , who walked past Nenna and settled himself between them in a small chair , actually a nursing chair , surviving from some earlier larger family home and much too low for him , so that he had to try crossing his legs in several positions . |